How To Fail With Elizabeth Day

Every success story you've ever been told is incomplete. How To Fail with Elizabeth Day is the part they leave out. Each week, Sunday Times #1 bestselling author Elizabeth Day sits down with someone extraordinary - and asks them about the moments that didn’t go according to plan and how these failures shaped them. Kate Winslet on body image. Malala Yousafzai on rewriting her story. Pamela Anderson on refuting shame. Phoebe Waller-Bridge on creativity. Salman Rushdie on survival. Emilia Clarke on fame. What happens when the people you most admire stop performing and start telling the truth? Five hundred episodes in, we're still finding out. With sold-out nights at the London Palladium and Sydney Opera House, millions of listeners worldwide, and a British Podcast Award to its name, How To Fail is one of the UK's most successful podcasts. And yes, we're aware of the irony. Pick an episode. Start anywhere. An Elizabeth Day and Sony Music Entertainment production. All guest booking is manag

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Every guest on How To Fail With Elizabeth Day

324 guests, ranked by how many people never want them back.

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   David Nicholls

   S1, Ep7 How to Fail: David Nicholls · Aug 2018

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   Dawn French

   ON FRIENDSHIP… With Dawn French and Vogue Williams · 2 episodes

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   Deborah Frances-White

   S3, Ep4 How to Fail: Deborah Frances-White · Jan 2019

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   Delia Smith

   S13, Ep8 How To Fail: Delia Smith · Mar 2022

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   Diane Abbott

   Diane Abbott - ‘I’ve never had a nice chat with Keir Starmer’ · Sep 2024

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   Dolly Alderton

   S1, Ep3 How to Fail: Dolly Alderton · Jul 2018

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   Ed Miliband

   S11, Ep3 How to Fail: Ed Miliband · Jun 2021

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   Edward Enninful

   S15, Ep2 How To Fail: Edward Enninful, the editor of British Vogue on body image, diversity and the joy of being friends with Naomi Campbell · Sep 2022

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   Elif Shafak

   Elif Shafak - ‘There’s only one thing that scares me - and that’s indifference’ · Jul 2024

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    Ella Purnell

    Ella Purnell - ‘Therapy changed my life’ · Nov 2024

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    Ellie Simmonds

    Ellie Simmonds - Being different is a superpower. · Aug 2024

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    Emily Atack

    Emily Atack - ‘I’ve forgiven people for unforgivable things’ · May 2026

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    Emma Barnett

    S10, Ep4 How to Fail: Emma Barnett · Feb 2021

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    Fearne Cotton

    HAPPY HIGH BETTER FAIL: The Ultimate Podcast Mash-Up with Fearne Cotton, Rangan Chatterjee, Jake Humphrey & Damian Hughes · 2 episodes

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    Fern Brady

    ON MONEY WORRIES… With Fern Brady and Simon Cowell · 2 episodes

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    George Alagiah

    S6, Ep6 How to Fail: George Alagiah · Oct 2019

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    Geri Halliwell-Horner

    S18, Ep5 Geri Halliwell-Horner on writing, grief - and what the Spice Girls taught her · Oct 2023

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    Graham Norton

    S11, Ep1 How to Fail: Graham Norton · May 2021

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    Greg James

    S16 Ep9 How To Fail: Greg James on radio, rebellion and failing to be a good at fame · Mar 2023

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    Harriet Walter

    Dame Harriet Walter - ‘I wish I’d had all this attention when I was 40’ · Jan 2025

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    Jacqueline Wilson

    S12, Ep2 How to Fail: Jacqueline Wilson · Sep 2021

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    Jameela Jamil

    Failure Throwback: Jameela Jamil · 2 episodes

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    James Blunt

    James Blunt - ‘The Iraq war lost me my GRAMMYS’ · Oct 2024

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    James O'Brien

    S3, Ep6 How to Fail: James O'Brien · Feb 2019

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    Jamie Dornan

    ON SCHOOL… With Jamie Dornan and Bernie Sanders · 2 episodes

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    Jamie Laing

    ON PANIC ATTACKS… With Jamie Laing and Fearne Cotton · 2 episodes

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    Jarvis Cocker

    S14, Ep3 How To Fail: Jarvis Cocker · May 2022

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    Jess Phillips

    S5, Ep8 How to Fail: Jess Phillips · Aug 2019

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    Jessica Ennis-Hill

    S11, Ep2 How to Fail: Jessica Ennis-Hill · Jun 2021

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    Jilly Cooper

    Jilly Cooper: On Failure, Love and Literature · 2 episodes

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    Joan Bakewell

    S16, Ep8 How To Fail: Joan Bakewell - the legendary broadcaster on life, love and everything in between · Feb 2023

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    Joe Locke

    Joe Locke - ‘At 20, I Felt Like I Was Already 35’ · Sep 2025

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    Joe Wicks

    Joe Wicks on addiction, homeschooling and body image · Jan 2024

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    John Bishop

    John Bishop - ‘I’ve always wanted someone to say: you’re good enough’ · May 2025

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    Jordan Stephens

    S15, Ep6 How To Fail: Jordan Stephens on male vulnerability, anger and getting naked · Oct 2022

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    Julia Samuel

    S8, Ep5 How to Fail: Julia Samuel · Jul 2020

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    Katherine Parkinson

    Katherine Parkinson – ‘I’m Still Learning How to Be Me’ · May 2026

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    Kazuo Ishiguro

    S10, Ep8 How to Fail: Kazuo Ishiguro · Mar 2021

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    Kelly Holmes

    S5, Ep5 How to Fail: Dame Kelly Holmes · Jul 2019

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    Kirsty Young

    ON MEDITATION… With Kirsty Young and Yuval Noah Harari · 2 episodes

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